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Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?
- From: Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond dot org>
- To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, sparclinux at vger dot kernel dot org
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:22:47 +0100
- Subject: Re: Is Sun putting much effort into supporting the gcc/binutils toolchain on sparc64 ?
- References: <46E7CF5F.3090909@walrond.org> <20070912.052331.48512526.davem@davemloft.net>
David Miller wrote:
>
> So no, Sun really isn't helping with any actual development.
>
I don't know what to say. Incredible work David, but quite frankly, I'm
speechless.
I'm sure I can't be the only hardware purchaser asking these questions.
I really like the Niagra and the successors sound even better, but I
can't recommend buying into the platform without solid support for the
OS and toolchain from Sun.
I'm trying to conceive a valid business reason for Sun to be so
dismissive of the (surely massive?) gnu/linux hardware market, (even if
they would rather we used Solaris), but it eludes me completely.
Andrew Walrond